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The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.

Swami Sivananda
Source: Meditation (Dhyana)
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Let him [the intelligent man  admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! — he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada By Friedrich Max Müller, Viggo Fausbøll, P. 23, v. 77
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...there is something larger that’s looming out there. A force that remains patient and silent. An entity that waits to teach a lesson that we have yet to grasp. It is much better to just lie there and let it roll over you like some immense army of unquestionable wonder.

Matt Good
Source: At Last There is Nothing Left to Say
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a Teacher teaches the student to teach themself.

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And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340 - 1400)
Source: Geoffrey Chaucer
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau : American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
 
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau : American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
 
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" If we are to honour the gift of being human we must embrace our true nature and teach our souls to fly. "

Micheal Teal
Source: Micheal Teal - Poet , Philosopher and Shaman
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What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: Buddha in 'The Dhammapada,' trans. E. Easwaran
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I do know that Allah will debase the scholar who speaks for his own vainglory, and will honor the one who writes and teaches and learns for His sake alone.

R. David Coolidge
Source: http://www.islamicamagazine.com/issue-20/the-sincere-muslim-intellectual.html
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The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett
 
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Perhaps the only real teacher is the person themselves and perhaps it is only when the person themselves allows themselves to teach themselves that the person truly learns and then both teacher and student appear simultaneously?

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Pi Dialogue
Source: self
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If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
 
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One must marvel at the intellectual quality of a teacher who can't understand why children assault one another in the hallway, playground, and city street, when in the classroom the highest accolades are reserved for those who have beaten their peers. In many subtle and some not so subtle ways, teachers demonstrate that what children learn means much less than that they triumph over their classmates. Is this not assault? . . . Classroom defeat is only the pebble that creates widening ripples of hostility. It is self-perpetuating. It is reinforced by peer censure, parental disapproval, and loss of self-concept. If the classroom is a model, and if that classroom models competition, assault in the hallways should surprise no one.

Joseph Wax
Source: http://www.everybodygoes.com/quotations/win-win-quotes.htm
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Lady Nancy Astor
Source: http://www.everybodygoes.com/quotations/experiential-learning-quotes.htm
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What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

Julius Sumner Miller
Source: http://www.everybodygoes.com/quotations/experiential-learning-quotes.htm
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It's not to give people fish

It's not to teach them how to fish

It's to build a new and better fishing industry
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Bill Drayton : Gaia Child
Bill Drayton
Source: Bill Drayton said this on the video on ~C4Chaos's 3rd blog post on 08.16.2006 called ~Omni-Peephole: Ashoka's Social Entrepreneurship Series
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle : Greek philosopher, student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
 
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato : Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle
Plato (c.427 - 347 BC)
 
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